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L. STAUFFERT.

STIBRING 0R MIXING APPARATUS.

No. 364,059. Patented May a1, 1887.

IN VBNTOR UNITE STATES PATENT QFFICEO' LOUIS STAUFFERT, OF DINGLINGEN, NEAR LAHR, GERMANY.

STIRRING OR MlXlNG APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,059, dated May'31, 1887. Application filed January 26, 1887. Serial No. 225,618. (No model.) Patented in Germany May 9, i856, No. 37,365.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs STAUFFERT, of Dinglingen, near Lahr, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stirring or Mixing Apparatus, (for which I have obtained a patent in Germany, No. 37,365, dated May 9, 1886,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved apparatus for effectively stirring and mixing the contents of barrels stored in cellars or other places.

The invention consists of the construction and arrangement of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement in a closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing the apparatus-in an open position. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of the upper part of the improvement,

and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view on the line w x of Fig. 2.

The shaft A is provided 011 top with a crankarm, 13, and to its lower end are pivoted the place on the latter by the said ring E and by the annular flange H, secured to the upper part of the said sleeve and fitting upon an annular shoulder formed on the shell G. On the hub of thecrank-arin B are downwardly-proj ecting pins I, which engage corresponding recesses formed on the upper end of the sleeve D. (See Fig. 3.)

The operation is as follows: The apparatus in its closed position, as shown in Fig. 1, is in-- sorted into the barrel through the bung-hole, with the blades or wings O downward, and the cone-shaped shell G is fitted loosely into the bung-hole of the barrel and thereby suspends the apparatus. The shaft A is then pressed downward, so that the wings or blades O are opened or spread apart, as shown in Fig. 2, by the action of the said shaft and the links F, which are held suspended from the fixed sleeve D. The pins I on the hub of the crank-arm B engage the corresponding recesses of the sleeve D, and when the operator now turns the said crank-arm B the blades 0 in the barrel are also turned, and thus agitate the contents of the barrel very effectively.

I am aware that it is not new to employ a shaft supported in a funnel fixed as relates to vertical movement, and having applied to it near its lower end pivoted arms or sprcaders which areprovided with drops or pendants,

and which are disposed into position by means ferent heights, according as it is designed to spread or depress the said arms or Spreaders.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent' 1. In a stirring and mixing apparatus, a shaft provided with a crank-arm and wings or blades pivoted on the said shaft, in combination with a sleeve,within which is adapted to slide the said shaft,.1inks pivoted on the said sleeve and on the said blades,and a cone-shaped shell surrounding. the said sleeve, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a stirring and mixing apparatus, a shaft, acrank-arm fastened on one end of thesaid shaft and stirring blades or wings pivoted on the other end of the said shaft, in combination with a sleeve,within which is adapted to slide the said shaft, a ring secured to the lower end of the said shaft, wings pivoted to the said shaft A, and which is provided with recesses in its upper end, and the said blades, and a cone-shaped shell surrounding the said sleeve loosely, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a stirring or mixing apparatus, the shaft A, the crankarm B, held on the upper end of the said shaft, the pins I,projecting from the hub of the said crank-arm B, and the blades 0, pivoted on the lower end of the said shaft A, in combination with the sleeve D, within which is adapted to slide the said shaft A, and which is provided with recesses in its upper end, the ring R, fixed on the lower end of the said sleeve D, the connecting-links F, pivoted on the said ring E, and the blades 0, the annular flange H, secured to the said sleeve D, and the cone-shaped shell G, loosely surrounding the said sleeve D and held in place on the same by the said ring E and the annularflange H, substantially as shown and described.

4. An improved mixing or stirring apparatus, to be employed, preferably, for lager-beer barrels, consisting of the shaft A, which can be Witnesses:

J OHAN GEORG FUCHS,

LEOPOLD HORKENHEIMER. 

